PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Stepfamily, Psy, Social Cognition
4 Aug 2020
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Parents spend less time with kids, while also being their primary liaison and interactive interface to the greater world. contexts. Parents slowly give more and more control of children"s lives to them with time. Families help to regulate how a child acts, what children do, when, and in what. Stepfamilies can be beneficial, and children can grow up successfully in homes with stepparents; however children will have a closer bond to their biological parent than their stepparent. Can cause issues depending on when in their cognitive development this new stepfamily is formed. Children spend 30% of their days interacting with their peers. Prefer same sex peer relations until age 12. Children can have different social status" amongst their peers: Popular children are frequently nominated as a best friend and are rarely disliked by their peers. Average children receive an average number of both positive and negative nominations from their peers.
